Richard
R. Veit
Professor, Department Chair
Building 6S - Room 129
College of Staten Island/CUNY
phone: (718) 982-3862
fax: (718) 982-3852
e-mail: veitrr2003@yahoo.com
Seabird Ecology and Dispersal Behavior
B.A. University of Massacusetts, Boston, 1979
M.S. University of Massacusetts, Boston, 1984
Ph.D.
Teaching Activities
Advanced Statistics
Ornithology
General Biology
Biometrics
Vertebrate Zoology
Animal Behavior (with Albert Burchsted)
Mathematical Biology (with Bala Sundaram)
Experimental Design
Systems Ecology
Research Activities
Behavior and ecology of birds; I am
particularly interested in decisions about movement made by birds. These
decisions may be about locating food or other resources, and may take place
over a variety of spatial and temporal scales. My most recent projects
involve the study of foraging decisions made by oceanic birds in the Antarctic,
and the dispersal by songbirds at the scale of 10-100 km, both within and
between nesting seasons. Students working in my lab pursue their own interests – ranging from morphology and systematics
of theropod dinosaurs, to acoustic communication by
cetaceans and population dynamics of birds.
Publications
Veit, R.R. 2000a. Vagrants as the expanding fringe of a growing population. Auk 117: 242-246.
Veit, R.R. 2000b. Global climate change and its ecological impact. McGraw -Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology, 2000. Pp. 69-70.
Silverman, E.D. and R.R. Veit. 2001. Associations among Antarctic seabirds in mixed-species feeding flocks. Ibis 142: 51-62.
Veit, R.R. and K. D. Hyrenbach. 2001. Changes in seabird communities of the California Current, 1987-1999. Pages 34-37 in Green, R.H., M. Harley, M. Spalding, and C. Zockler (eds) Impacts of Climate Change on Wildlife. Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, ISBN 1 901034 29 7
Grunbaum, D. and R.R. Veit. 2003. Foraging behavior of Black-browed Albatrosses exploiting Antarctic krill: Density-dependence through local enhancement. Ecology 84(12): 3265-3275.
Hyrenbach, K.D. and R.R. Veit.
2003.
Barrett, R.T., Chapdelaine,
G., Anker-Nilssen, T., Mosbech
A., Montevecchi, W.A., Reid, J.B., and Veit, R.R.
2006. Seabird
numbers and prey consumption in the
Veit, R.R. 2006.
Identification criteria for young female Bullock’s and Baltimore
Orioles: An evaluation based on museum skins.
Veit, R.R., K.D. Hyrenbach
and M.C. Martin. 2007. Records of rare birds in the
White,
T.P. and R.R. Veit. Submitted. Feeding ecology of
Long-tailed Ducks Clangula hyemalis
wintering on the Nantucket Shoals.
Auk. 15 pages
Hyrenbach, K.D., R.R. Veit, H. Weimerskirch, N. Metzl and G.L.
Hunt, Jr. 2007. Community structure across a large-scale
ocean productivity gradient: Marine bird
assemblages of the
Barrett, R. T.,
Camphuysen, C. J., Anker-Nilssen,
T., Chardine, J. W., Furness, R. W., Garthe, S., Hüppop, O., Leopold,
M. F., Montevecchi, W. A., and Veit, R. R. 2007. Diet
studies of seabirds: a review and recommendations. ICES
Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1675-1691.
Nisbet, I.C.T., R.R. Veit and